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Real Privacy. From funny videos to health and finance questions, searches are a reflection of your personal life. That's why we don't collect or share your personal information.

Smarter Search. With instant answers from hundreds of sources, we help you get what you want in fewer clicks. Try one of our !bang commands to search your favorite sites directly from DuckDuckGo.

Stories you'll love. We feature the most enjoyed stories from over 50 sources around the web that you can customize to your liking.

Have feedback? You can always reach us at https://duckduckgo.com/feedback, or via email android@duckduckgo.com. We listen!

Disclaimer: While we can and will ensure your privacy at DuckDuckGo, we cannot ensure that other websites you visit from our app will similarly respect your privacy.

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4.4

24,253 total

5 16,635

4 4,357

3 1,590

2 697

1 974

Thomas Toft

The only thing DDG has going for it is privacy, but that is an illusion as long as it is American owned and hosted. It uses Bing and other third party sites to gather its results (look at their own policy and see) so the only thing they give you is a search field with worse results than their sources. Startpage can do that with both better privacy and results directly from Google, which is of course light years ahead, and Qwant can do so with both much better privacy and much better search results without using Google and it's European based and owned. Using an American search engine for privacy is like peeing your pants for warmth! It might work but.....

BASS ARMY

Great concept of stand alone browser. But it would be more worthy if it included a exceptional tracker blocker like privacy badger along with duckduckgo search engine. Need to work on security a lot as well. Doesent block malicious content neither does it block tracking content. Adding an option of custom UA string would be great.

piyush s.

I could not understand why I use the app and not use duck duck go from browser. Nothing special with the app, except direct search maybe. I've already set Duck duck go as my default search engine in the browser. If it had something extra, then it would have been awesome. And yes I ❤ Duck Duck Go.

Richard Mosse

If I have to press the home button and copy the typed search one more time because the search often won't bring up results when not reset to home, I'll go mad. Also, frequently doesn't actually type out what you have entered, so you have to start again.

Jamie Keeney

This engine pulls up a much larger range than what I can get out of Google. I have a harder time finding what I'm looking for on Google. Soon I believe this search engine will be better than Google all the way around.

this browser was worse than Google in that it never gave me good search results. It would take one word from an entire phrase and show me whatever junk it could find using that one word, instead of showing me anything even close to my search perimeters.

User reviews

Thomas Toft September 14, 2017

The only thing DDG has going for it is privacy, but that is an illusion as long as it is American owned and hosted. It uses Bing and other third party sites to gather its results (look at their own policy and see) so the only thing they give you is a search field with worse results than their sources. Startpage can do that with both better privacy and results directly from Google, which is of course light years ahead, and Qwant can do so with both much better privacy and much better search results without using Google and it's European based and owned. Using an American search engine for privacy is like peeing your pants for warmth! It might work but.....

Great concept of stand alone browser. But it would be more worthy if it included a exceptional tracker blocker like privacy badger along with duckduckgo search engine. Need to work on security a lot as well. Doesent block malicious content neither does it block tracking content. Adding an option of custom UA string would be great.

I could not understand why I use the app and not use duck duck go from browser. Nothing special with the app, except direct search maybe. I've already set Duck duck go as my default search engine in the browser. If it had something extra, then it would have been awesome. And yes I ❤ Duck Duck Go.

If I have to press the home button and copy the typed search one more time because the search often won't bring up results when not reset to home, I'll go mad. Also, frequently doesn't actually type out what you have entered, so you have to start again.

This engine pulls up a much larger range than what I can get out of Google. I have a harder time finding what I'm looking for on Google. Soon I believe this search engine will be better than Google all the way around.

this browser was worse than Google in that it never gave me good search results. It would take one word from an entire phrase and show me whatever junk it could find using that one word, instead of showing me anything even close to my search perimeters.

I just installed this on my Moto X pure, and for some reason search results of my query of who is better than GoDaddy because they suck they suck royally and all the results are coming up are ancient from 2011-2012 not much current, and there's just as many GoDaddy horror stories when I use Google as a search engine from Recently but for some reason DuckDuckGo has ancient search results

Several things needs to be improved. 1. No multiple tabs feature is there. 2. Many sites are opened in the PC way, not mobile. 3. Orange colour as the standard color scheme is a bad idea in my opinion.

It's Google in a different skin. I tried some controversial searches and got the exact same results that I got from Google. Maybe it doesn't track you, I wouldn't bet the bank on that, but Google is more user friendly.

To much captcha!!! You can't use your data or Internet without verifying captchas, (AND BELIEVE ME, IT DOESN'T STOP ASKING TO VERIFY!!!!!!!) I don't get it, when it's it's an option inside the app, what's the point in privacy?

Just a reminder that this app is open source so anyone can contribute to its development or examine the source code. Let us know your suggestions and feature requests! https://github.com/duckduckgo/android-search-and-stories